stern commands about how good party members should behave (no charity work, for instance, to distract them from their revolutionary duties).
That line is very revealing, showing the inversion of radical values for ideological gains.
As he leaves the Kremlin, Minor notices two men drive up in limousines. “A few months ago they were ‘bloodthirsty minions of predatory capital,’ ” he writes, “But now they are ‘people’s commissaries’ and ride in the fine automobiles as before, live in the fine mansions.” They rule “under red silk flags to protect them from all disorders. They have learned the rose smells as sweetly under another name.”
And the above should have been more apparent to more people. Hell, I realized that as a teenager, how the "classless" society actually had a political class and the workers -- just as supposedly democratic America is similarly deceived; we're no more democratic than the USSR was classless.
Anarchists wrote about this in the 20s, but nobody paid them attention. Hopefully this record dumping will reveal the hypocrisy of the Communists.
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